Re: Feature request: automatically read .git-blame-ignore-revs or allow global optional config

From: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: May 1, 2025, 18:00 UTC
Message-ID: <CALnO6CBXqZ76iovr6JQq439RTOR6E+B2sivKWEEFtBXMj2EZXQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQ6L60gRGZqapkVdGjo_C_k4Wi1miK8nv5=AZeNXnK_4Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM Michael Grosser
> <grosser.michael@gmail.com> wrote:>
> > I have many repos where I use .git-blame-ignore-revs,
> > but I cannot set it globally because then I get
> > ```
> > fatal: could not open object name list: .git-blame-ignore-revs
> > ```
> > so please make it either the default for `git blame` to check that file,
> > or add a "blame: ignoreMissingFile: true" option so I an set
> > ```
> > [blame]
> >   ignoreRevsFile = .git-blame-ignore-revs
> >   ignoreMissingFile: true
> > ```
> > and can use this feature without constantly having to think about it
>
> Relevant threads:
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1947.git.git.1745088194384.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/T/#u
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20241014204427.1712182-1-gitster@pobox.com/T/#u

Did that second set of patches ever go anywhere? It seems similar to what Junio proposed in the first linked thread and possibly worth resurrecting. (A log --grep :(optional) didn't find anything.)

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D. Ben Knoble